Global Education as pedagogy
When a high schooler graduates, what do we, as a society hope that s/he leaves with? Good grades? Sports abilities? Social skills? All these are desirable goals, however, we can prepare students to be both place-based scholars and global citizens.
A portrait of a graduate identifies academic and interactional indicators established by a community to be the ultimate goal for every high school graduate.
Quality education should not focus primarily on discrete skills in science, math, and reading. Global education presents a perspective of interconnectedness that shows how the local and national in one region, can impact the local and national in another region. Providing students with the skills to engage in such an interconnected world across various domains is the purpose of global education.
Explore the schools highlighted here for their focus and process in articulating a portrait of a graduate.
“The source of America's prosperity has never been merely how ably we accumulate wealth, but how well we educate our people. This has never been more true than it is today. In a 21st-century world where jobs can be shipped wherever there's an Internet connection, where a child born in Dallas is now competing with a child in New Delhi, where your best job qualification is not what you do, but what you know—education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity and success, it's a prerequisite for success.”
Barack Obama
Resource Organizations
Global Competence
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Schools
Global Competence in School
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Community
Global Competence and Education in the Community.
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Digital Literacy and Assessments
Global Competence and education resources.
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